Keine Ahnung wer’s kennt, ist mir auch egal. Ich fands sehr amuesant heute in English als das ausgeteilt wurde von der Dozentin 
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NO KNOWN SPECIES OF REINDEER CAN FLY.
BUT there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified,
and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY
rule out flying reindeer which only Santa has ever seen. -
THERE ARE 2 BILLION CHILDREN (persons under 18) IN THE WORLD.
BUT since Santa doesn’t (appear to) handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish &
Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to 15% of the total – 378
million according to Population Reference Bureau. At an average
(census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that’s 91.8 million homes.
One presumes there’s at least one good child in each. -
SANTA HAS 31 HOURS OF CHRISTMAS TO WORK WITH.
This is due to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth,
assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical). This works out
to 822.6 visits/second.
This is to say that for each Christian household with good children,
Santa has .001 second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the
chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under
the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left, get back up the chimney,
get back into the sleigh and move on to the next house.
Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed
around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false but for the
purposes of our calculations we will accept), we are now talking about
.78 miles/household, a total trip of 75.5 million miles; not counting
stops to do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours, plus
feeding & etc.
So Santa’s sleigh must be moving at 650 miles/second, 3,000 times the
speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made
vehicle on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4
miles/second. A conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles/hour.
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THE PAYLOAD ON THE SLEIGH ADDS ANOTHER INTERESTING ELEMENT.
Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized lego
set (2 lb.), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa,
who is invariably described as overweight. On land, conventional
reindeer can pull no more than 300 lb. Even granting that “flying
reindeer” (see #1) could pull 10 TIMES the normal amount, we cannot do
the job with 8, or even 9 reindeer. We need 214,200. This increases
the payload – not counting the weight of the sleigh – to 353,430
tons. This is four times the weight of the ocean-liner Queen Elizabeth. -
353,000 TONS TRAVELING AT 650 MILES/SEC CREATES ENORMOUS AIR
RESISTANCE.
This will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as a spacecraft
reentering the earth’s atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will
absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy. Per second. Each. In
short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the
reindeer behind them, and creating deafening sonic booms in their wake.
The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within .00426 of a second.
Meanwhile, Santa will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.06
times greater than gravity. A 250-lb. Santa (seems ludicrously slim)
would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 lb. of force. -
RUDOLPH
The only way Santa and the reindeer could possibly survive this would be through the help of Rudolphs nose. It is highly probable that this unique nose is made of heat resistant material and becomes red hot from deflecting the air resistance around the sleigh and other reindeer, creating a protective envelope similiar to what is commonly known as drafting in automobile racing. This would also explain why they all live at the North Pole, as it takes one year f subzero temperatures to cool down Rudolphs nose before aking the trip again.
